Hi
I have an A3000 with a HD floppy as standard.
When I faormat a disk under ADOS
format drive df0: name bsd noicons ffs
I can mount it on netbsd
mount -t ados /dev/fd0a /a
but it is only readable, not writeable.
If I try to mount it
mount -rw -t ados /dev/fd0a /a
I get the following error:
Aug 16 12:24:05 atze /netbsd: fd0: corrupted track (160) data.
then ps -aux shows the following:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
root 2191 0.0 0.0 128 40 p3 D 12:24PM 0:02.35 ados /dev/fd0a /a (mount_ados)
^--->this then causes the
floppy to be unaccessible.
I also tried to newfs the disk rather than mounting it ados
newfs -m0 -c80 -i8192 /dev/rfd0a
but this came up with corrupted track (or something) messages.
Also taring a file to the raw drive didn't work.
tar -cvpf /dev/rfd0a /netbsd
resulted in errors about parts of the disk being bad.
If I keep trying to work with the disk the system eventually freezes,
only the mouse pointer and window manager will work, but no new
processes can be started anymore. If I click on a gadged eg manual
page from xman, then the window manager dies as well.
Only a reboot Crtl-A-A helps here.
The floppy itself is good, I formatted it on the Amiga with no errors,
and to make sure I scanned it with disksalv which chouldn't find
anything wrong with it.
btw disklabel doesn't seem to work either.
I forgot the error message right now, but I'll try again if anyone
wants to know.
Arthur.
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Arthur Hoffmann 58/1 Dickward Drive
Fannie Bay N.T. 0820
Darwin - Australia.
hoffmann@it.ntu.edu.au Tel.:(0061/)89/818926
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